“As a child I read about the near-extinction of the American bison. […]
When I read about the bison’s demise I remember thinking, with the characteristic superiority of a child, how such a thing could never happen today, that society has, in a word, ‘progressed’.”
History repeats itself: the path to extinction is still paved with greed and waste.
“We have not progressed, but refusing to learn from the past, like the ignorant, we are doomed to repeat it. Of course, unlike the ignorant, we repeat it with the full knowledge of our consequences, yet not even this stops us.”
La puce, die Welt and everything else 